2025 Earth Sciences Colloquium

Jan 9th : How dinosaurs turned into giants. (Michael D'Emic, Adelphi University)

Feb 10th: Cordilleran Orogenesis and Heating within the Magallanes-Austral Basin, Patagonia. (Rebecca VanderLeest, Colorado State University)

Feb 25th double feature: 2–3pm The Deep Time Origin of Bone Biology. (Yara Haridy,  University of Chicago) *in Ricketson Auditorium

    3–4pm  Functional, Flamboyant, Fatal: Dinosaur Skin Adaptations (artist Brian Engh, Living Relic Productions) *in Ricketson Auditorium

Mar 18th: A Tale of Two Birds: Avian Dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous of Madagascar and Antarctica. (Patrick O'Connor, DMNS)

Apr 9th: How to measure the height of a mountain range in the geologic past. (Jeremy Caves Rugenstein, Colorado State University) *NOW in Ricketson Auditorium

May 13th: What defines a paleontologist? Using modern plant-insect interactions to connect past, present, and future. (Lauren Azevedo-Schmidt, University of California, Davis) 

May 15th: Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from central Patagonia, Argentina. (Mathhew Lamanna, Carnegie Museum of Natural History) *NOW in Ricketson Auditorium

Jun 26th: Colorado is a geologists candy store! (Peter Barkmann, Colorado School of Mines) *NOW in Ricketson Auditorium

Aug 20th: On Frozen Ground Down Under: Polar Dinosaurs, Insects, and More from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. (Anthony Martin, Emory University) *NOW in Ricketson Auditorium

Sept 8th: Diversity dynamics of freshwater fish across the K/Pg boundary: The challenges and heuristic potential of a sparse fossil record. (Jake Wilson, DMNS) *NOW in Ricketson Auditorium

Oct 2nd: Does the river braid or meander? Delving into controls on valley and floodplain formation in our mountain rivers. (Sarah Schanz, Colorado College) *NOW in Ricketson Auditorium

Nov 19th: Mitigation Paleontology in CDOT's Environmental Program. (Nicole Peavey, Colorado Department of Transportation) *NOW in Ricketson Auditorium